Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction Corporealities -- CHAPTER 1 Rhetorical red herrings -- CHAPTER 2 Behind the scenes -- CHAPTER 3 The beast within -- CHAPTER 4 From the horse's mouth -- CHAPTER 5 Bella intestina -- CHAPTER 6 Regurgitating Polyphemus -- CHAPTER 7 Scars of knowledge -- CHAPTER 8 How to eat Virgil -- CHAPTER 9 Ghost stories -- CHAPTER 10 Decomposing rhythms -- Conclusion Licence and labyrinths -- TAKING LIBERTIES -- CLAIMS TO FAME -- APPENDIX 1 The use of fundere and cognates in the Satyricon -- 1. TO POUR OUT, IN OR OVER, TO EMPTY (FUNDERE, EFFUNDERE) -- 2. TO POUR OUT WORDS/POETRY/EMOTIONS (EFFUNDERE, DEFUNDERE) -- 3. TO EMIT FROM THE BODY: BLOOD, TEARS, SWEAT, LAUGHTER, LIFE (FUNDERE, EFFUNDERE) -- 4. TO DRENCH OR COVER, TO ANOINT (PERFUNDERE) -- 5. TO POUR ON OR IN (INFUNDERE) -- 6. TO MINGLE, JUMBLE, CONFUSE, UPSET (CONFUNDERE) -- 7. TO POUR FROM ONE VESSEL INTO ANOTHER, TO EXCHANGE (TRANSFUNDERE) -- 8. TO POUR OVER, TO STAIN (SUFFUNDERE) -- 9. TO POUR IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, TO SPREAD OR DIFFUSE (DIFFUNDERE ) -- APPENDIX II The occurrence of fortuna or Fortuna in the Satyricon -- FORTUNATA -- APPENDIX III Aen. 4.39 at Sat. 112: nec venit in mentem, quorum consederis arvis? -- Bibliography -- Index of passages discussed -- Index of subjects.